The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48081   Message #723847
Posted By: Janice in NJ
05-Jun-02 - 05:48 PM
Thread Name: Folk Mafias?
Subject: RE: Folk Mafias?
And I endorse Larry's endorsement of Steve's endorsement of Peoples Music Network. PMN is where I first got to hear Rick Libert and Andy Buck, and I have been a big Rick & Andy fan ever since. It was at the same PMN program in New York that I went to a workshop featuring agent Harold Leventhal on the business and career aspects of being a folk musician. Leventhal, if I recall correctly, represents Judy Collins and Pete Seeger among others, and he represented Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly when they were alive. And do you you know what his advice was? It was, "Forget it, kid. You'll never make it big in this business. Get a real job and sing what you want." Those are still words to live by.